A 'Feeling' Prosthetic Hand (4 of 12) (IMAGE)

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A 'Feeling' Prosthetic Hand (4 of 12)

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This image shows amputee Dennis Aabo Sørensen wearing a sensory feedback enabled prosthesis in Rome, March 2013. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 5, 2014, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. S. Raspopovic at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland, and colleagues was titled, "Restoring Natural Sensory Feedback in Real-Time Bidirectional Hand Prostheses."

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LifeHand 2/Patrizia Tocci

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